Babylon 5: Grail

[G-Man]

Yeah, how dare people not have the names of all the writers for children's cartoons memorized?

I wasn't mocking people for not knowing - I thought it would be more fun to find out rather than have it explained.

[Eishtmo]

The fourth one stayed up, right until it disappeared into a temporal thingy.

The FIFTH one though, stayed up and right were it was. Until it was demolished so it wasn't a hazard to navigation.

[Durandal_1707]

The fourth one stayed up, right until it disappeared into a temporal thingy.

The FIFTH one though, stayed up and right were it was. Until it was demolished so it wasn't a hazard to navigation.

Because traffic to that uninhabited planet was really high enough to make that a credible problem. Also: space is really small, and cramped.

[Deledrius]

I wasn't mocking people for not knowing - I thought it would be more fun to find out rather than have it explained.

If it makes you feel any better, I knew what you meant.

Also: space is really small, and cramped.

Side note: this is something that bothers me about the convenience of the plot-creating event at the start of Valerian. As written, the entire contrivance makes no sense.

A lot of movies don't understand this about space, and I guess JMS was no different in this instance. I suppose he just couldn't think of a better reason to fulfill "the prophecy" for The End.

[Alinis]

I have to admit Grail was one of my favorite episodes of Babylon Five which is a rarity for anything from season one and its almost certainty because David Warner's performance.

I have to admit though it almost strange to hear his voice and not be evil given he was both Jon Irenicus in the Baldur's gate series and Ra's al Ghul in the DCAU.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

This was one of the few stories I vaguely remembered from my childhood. I know David Warner was the selling point for Chuck, but what stuck in my head was a brain-sucker monster. Can hardly go wrong with one of those.

[Wargriffin]

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I can't fight it


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[Steve]

The fourth one stayed up, right until it disappeared into a temporal thingy.

The FIFTH one though, stayed up and right were it was. Until it was demolished so it wasn't a hazard to navigation.

Because traffic to that uninhabited planet was really high enough to make that a credible problem. Also: space is really small, and cramped.

TBH, it's my headcanon that the demolition of B5 was the work of a spiteful ex-Clarkist still on EarthGov who arranged the decision as a petty attempt to strike at the people who, in his or her pathetic mind, are responsible for the "subordination" of Earth to the "alien-dominated" InterStellar Alliance. B5 is the symbol of Sheridan's treason against Earth, and if they couldn't lash out at Sheridan without repercussions, they could at least manage to blow up that symbol.

[Durandal_1707]

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I can't fight it


youtu.be/AGvxoWytMig

I see you, and raise you:


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[Cassandra]

The fourth one stayed up, right until it disappeared into a temporal thingy.

The FIFTH one though, stayed up and right were it was. Until it was demolished so it wasn't a hazard to navigation.

Because traffic to that uninhabited planet was really high enough to make that a credible problem. Also: space is really small, and cramped.

Also: navigation hazards in real space are relevant in a universe where all long distance travel is done FTL in an alternate dimension.

Also: blowing up a huge, easily detectable, space station into billions of tiny, likely undetectable, pieces on unpredictable orbits makes real-space navigation safer.


Remember: B5 is a show where space is two dimensional for plot purposes. Realism took a trip to Z'ha'dum and never came back.